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with the food and drug administration giving the pfizer vaccine full approval today, after more than a year of shots in arms under an emergency use authorization. this clears the way for more vaccine mandates. president biden will speak on the fda decision this afternoon as the delta variant is also creating a surge in serious cases at hospitals, including among unvaccinated young people and pregnant women, leading to a sharp decline in the president s approval numbers on covid in a new nbc news poll. we begin today with afghanistan and chief correspondent richard engel who filed this report from doha. reporter: thousands of afghans have made it out of the airport and the first stop for many is doha, qatar, including afghanistan s so-called robot girls. these high schoolers competed in competitions around the world, won events and innovation awards. this 18-year-old is the robotics team captain. was it difficult for you to leave afghanistan, to leave your family, le ....
help folks escape and the oklahoma mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say no one is criticizing. we begin at the pentagon where we await that briefing. reporter: 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy in kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential security threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of what airport gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us government representative to do so. yesterday president biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. no indication that they haven t gotten through the airport. we need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring ameri ....
will mobilize every resource necessary. plus, we have an update on this heartbreaking video showing a crying baby being handed over a wall to a u.s. marine at the kabul airport. tropical storm henri barreling toward the north. the first to make landfall in the region in years. a debate escalating in florida. another school district is defying the governor s orders as thousands of students are forced into quarantine. the punishment the school districts could face if they don t reverse course by monday. plus, the latest report by the florida department of health. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, august 21st. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson. we re keeping an eye on the sky, on henri. you see it there. it s a haggard storm, but it s a powerful one heading toward the northeast, new york city and beyond. there are lots of areas prepping for this, rhode island, connecticut, long island, preparing for power outages. massachusetts already declaring ....
hello there. days after the taliban took control of afghanistan, afghans are cautiously, nervously, venturing out again. businesses have been re opening. but what kind of government emerges and what their rule will mean for women, human rights and politics freedom is still unclear. significant to the economy will be global trade. analysts predict that, with the taliban in control, international trade will come to a standstill. the signs were already there injuly, when the afghanistan government s customs revenue slumped by 30% that month. so what will the taliban coming to power mean for bilateral trade, investment and business between afghanistan and united kingdom and europe? to explore that question i m joined by dr mohammad hotak, chairman of the british afghan chamber of commerce and industry. money comes from legal goods like cigarettes for example but also open and that that opium and methamphetamine so how can and methamphetamine so how can a legal trade survive ....
beaten by the taliban, a direct contradiction to what the commander-in-chief had said just a short time earlier. and that wasn t the only contradiction from the president s remarks this afternoon. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest from the north lawn. good evening, jackie. good evening, bret. the biggest news as the president remarked he extended the commitment to evacuate stranded americans to afghan refugees to allies. but it was incredibly unclear by what means he intends to do that and if it will involve american troops. president biden said he is considering rescue operations to recover americans and afghan allies stuck behind taliban checkpoints and seemed to open the door to using american troops. this evacuation mission is dangerous and involves risks to armed forces. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be and what it will be-that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander-in-chief, i can assure you that i will mobili ....